The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.
If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.
Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
The drug war has been a war where the direct casualties have primarily been America's poor; America's minorities; and often, unfortunately, America's vulnerable, in terms of people with disease and addiction and mental health.
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